Climate change has brought historic drought to southern Madagascar, but placing all the blame on nature lets malfeasant policies, some of which have been in place since colonialism, off the…
Traditional gender ideologies condition and limit women’s empowerment in Cameroon. These gender ideologies ascribe dominance and powerful positions to men and subservient social positions to women. This binary pairing fails…
One year after the #EndSARS protests, police brutality and abuse still loom large in Nigeria. Although the #EndSARS movement achieved partial success in some areas, it has been largely unable…
This article assesses the evolution of the Islamic insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province since 2017 and the government’s response. It concludes that despite ramped up international military support in…
The private sector is an engine for inclusive and sustainable growth and has the potential to accelerate socioeconomic transformation. Overcoming the daunting challenges facing the…
The Atewa Forest Reserve in Ghana is a possible site for the development of an integrated bauxite-aluminum mine through a Chinese resource-backed loan. Despite the opportunities for infrastructure development presented…
The failure of scholars to recognize the agency of children in political spheres matches the failure in practice to engage children when developing programs aimed at responding to their specific…
The COVID-19 pandemic is a human rights crisis, threatening the rights to health, food security, housing, dignity, and equality. Across the world, including in South Africa, the pandemic reveals the…
The risk that information can be manipulated on social media to serve political ends or instigate violence should not preclude key election stakeholders in Nigeria from…
The failure of governance in Nigeria manifests in the declining capacity of political leaders to recognize systemic risks such as election fraud, terrorist attacks, herder-farmer conflict, armed banditry, and police…
